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The registry contains 87% of land in England and Wales as of 2019. [5] HM Land Registry is internally independent and receives no government funding; it charges fees for applications lodged by customers. The current Chief Land Registrar (and CEO) is Simon Hayes. [6] The equivalent office in Scotland is the Registers of Scotland.
The Land Registry has been dealing with the registration of all transactions (purchase, sale, mortgage, remortgage and other burdens) concerning registered land since 1892, and issued land certificates which are a state guarantee of the registered owner's good title up to 1 January 2007. Land Certificates have been abolished by virtue of ...
The Land Registration Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 26) (LRA) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that amended the Land Registration Act 1925, concerning land registration in England and Wales. [1] It has largely been repealed, and updated in the Land Registration Act 2002.
The Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) is a unique number (a geocode) for every addressable location—e.g., a building, a bus stop, a post box, a feature in the landscape, or a defibrillator—in Great Britain. [1] Over 42 million locations have UPRNs, which can be found in Ordnance Survey's AddressBase databases. [1]
Under the Land Registration Act 2002 sections 23 and 27, a notice of a mortgage must be filed with HM Land Registry for the mortgage to be effective. Then, Law of Property Act 1925 section 87 says mortgages confer upon the mortgagee (i.e. the secured lender) the same rights as a 3000-year lease holder. The reason for this reference to "3000 ...
The Land Registry Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 53) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the country's first attempt at a system of universal land registration , specifically a title register , applying to England and Wales. [ 2 ]
In England and Wales, birth registration with the state began on 1 July 1837; however, only became compulsory in 1875. In 1970, with the creation of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys by merging the GRO and the Government Social Survey Department, the GRO became just one division of the new office, headed by a Deputy Registrar General.
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